I'd like to share my latest Magic-enabled project. It's a hand-made instrument and visualizer called MONARCH that I'm debuting next Saturday at http://www.silencesounds.ca/ gallery in Guelph, Canada.

MONARCH is an idiophonic butterfly-shaped physical synth. Comprised of 38 magnetically-tunable oscillators, 4 kalimba elements, 6 strings, 2 removable steel picks, and a playable reverb spring. Contact mic'd internally with a piezo transducer, it combines the ability to play as a picked/plucked instrument as well as percussively.

I've been exploring instrument making for the past several months, to close the loop with Magic and generate the audio I'm interpreting. Upcoming plans involve winding my own pickups, and building oscillator circuits to combine with the physical oscillators.

Here's a render of the output, as well as some stills and a picture of the physical instrument. The piece in the video is performed by the composer POLLY BEATS, after experimenting with MONARCH for a couple of hours.

Lovely clean visuals and a great reflection of the instrument both visually and in how the visuals match the sound. That looks like 3D butterfly wings and body - very crisp. The butterfly kaleidoscope is an intriguing use of that effect, recreating myriad wings within wings. I hope the arts festival goes well.